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by tapvt 8y ago
I'd really like to hear thoughts on how this applies to remote teams. I find that async standups via slack are pretty damn helpful for keeping everyone appraised of what is going on across 5 timezones. Process and communication are kin
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by tapvt 8y ago
But a late payment (only 3 days!) rather than a missed one. A court appearance seems very heavy-handed to me. I'd hope the judge will see that.
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by tapvt 8y ago
"Nothing is fucked, Dude." - Walter Sobchak
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by tapvt 9y ago
This is the rule I've been using of late. Perhaps I'm charging too little (as the parent comment suggests), but I'm comfortable with it. When I must travel for on-site consultation, I soften the blow of travel time by chargin
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by tapvt 9y ago
Until now, I never really thought about how version control might work in writing and publishing. "Cloud Atlas" was published in '04. I wonder what systems are in place now?
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by tapvt 9y ago
One that stands out from some years ago: Through my network an opportunity had come up for a "next move" in NYC. Went for lunch with the CEO. He was less than pleasant, bordering on rude, with the waitress and left a poor tip. Bot
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by tapvt 9y ago
This is great advice, and, honestly, an issue I had not given enough thought. So, thanks. I've often (always?) fallen into the trap of "Let's just use a wildcard. Setting these things up is a pain in the ass!"
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by tapvt 10y ago
I've been tempted to stop using it, but instead just shut off notifications. I really like being able to pull it up quickly to see when code has been pushed up, pull requests created / merged, or whatever automated CI action is go
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by tapvt 10y ago
Hubstaff, lots of Heroku infrastructure.
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by tapvt 10y ago
Another good reason to develop w/in a virtualized server on your dev machine?
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by tapvt 13y ago
Also, Swig. http://paularmstrong.github.io/swig/
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by tapvt 14y ago
If she's on a Mac, have her use 1password (from agile bits). It can generate passwords for you, and store them. The browser extensions are pretty seamless, and all you need to remember is your master password. This is especially viable if s
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by tapvt 14y ago
Agreed. I actually laughed out loud when the UI popped up, and again when I dropped a beat on the shirtless skinny white guy. Novel idea, fun UI. If the minor end-of-loop delay (which another commenter mentioned) were eliminated or mitigate
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by tapvt 15y ago
I also learned (years ago now) by using the MIT Guide, so +1 for that. If you don't want to spend any money on picks and a tension wrench, street sweeper bristles make great stock for creating your own tools. A grinding wheel will save you
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by tapvt 15y ago
Ask any college student if he or she thinks that the dead-tree textbook industry is a racket. I'd wager that 99% or more of those asked would say "yes." This is an area ripe for a shake-up. It has been for decades. Granted, the iBook Author
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by tapvt 15y ago
Both articles and items should have the up/down vote options, rather than the 5 star, IMO. There may be value in the determination of consumer-side article rank by a (weighted) average that encompasses both the net rank of items posted to t
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by tapvt 15y ago
This question (5-star?) was also the first to my mind once I signed up and jumped into interaction with the app. Given that each item shows a positive or negative number as its rating, it is unclear to me what the effect of a 5-, 3-, or 1-
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by tapvt 15y ago
Undertaking "optimization", in this case selecting and developing with a NoSQL datastore early in the process, should only be considered premature if the costs of doing so (which will be mainly represented by developer-hours spent) are grea
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by tapvt 15y ago
It seems to me that this is neither a dumb idea, nor hostile, nor mandatory. I know for a fact that working long hours to meet tight deadlines is a challenge for anyone. A quick round of push-ups, or other exercise, can open the mind to new
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by tapvt 15y ago
While I can't speak to the legal or political implications of the product or supporting infrastructure, I'm thrilled with the idea of a mobile application that provides for the exchange of "currency" in an autonomous manner. The exchange of
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by tapvt 15y ago
Social game platform with multiple profiles? Friendster? It's already a bizarre morning.
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by tapvt 16y ago
For me to adopt cloud storage more readily, I would have to see: a) greater demonstration of security of the service, and b) the ability to mount the storage device (NFS-styley) across various platforms. Dropbox's syncing daemon doesn't qui
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by tapvt 16y ago
Congratulations on closing the round! What's the stack that you folks run over there? Any plans towards expanding the user demographic profile? Either way: Nice execution and killer product!
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by tapvt 16y ago
I've survived, and even succeeded (by some, maybe most, measures) through my first year of full-time freelance web development. I have some clients, who came onboard very early on in my professional and personal development as a freelance d